EP0243937A1 - Variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to a variable-speed pumped-storage power station, and more particularly to a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system which is suitable to stably continue pumping operation under command of an output command signal.
- a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system is commonly known from the disclosure of, for example, United States Patent No. 4,48l,455.
- the disclosed system includes a generator motor which has a primary winding connected to an a.c. power system through a main circuit including a breaker and a main transformer.
- the generator motor is directly coupled at its rotor to a prime mover/load and has a secondary winding connected to the a.c. power system through an excitation circuit including a frequency converter and an exciting transformer.
- the system disclosed in the cited patent has such a great advantage that the prime mover/load can be driven at a rotation speed independent of the frequency of the a.c. power system.
- a turbine/pump is coupled directly to the rotor of the generator motor as the prime mover/load, and, during generating operation, the rotor of the generator motor (the generator) is driven by the water turbine, thereby inducing power in the primary winding of the generator motor.
- the induced power is supplied to an electric power system.
- the generator motor is driven as the motor by the power supplied from the electric power system, and water is pumped up by the pump coupled directly to the rotor of the generator motor.
- the frequency of the electric power system is constant or, for example, 60 Hz.
- the rotation speed of the turbine/pump can be freely selected independently of the frequency of the electric power system.
- the rotation speed is selected to maximize the operation efficiency of the water turbine or pump.
- the fact that the rotation speed N of the turbine/pump can be freely selected means that there is a slip frequency f2 between the frequency f1 of the electric power system and the frequency P: the number of poles of winding) corresponding to the rotation speed N of the turbine/pump, and the following equation (l) holds:
- the slip frequency f2 in the equation (l) is the frequency of the secondary winding of the generator motor, and the rotation speed N can be set at a value which maximizes the pump efficiency or turbine efficiency while maintaining constant the frequency f1 of the electric power system.
- variable-speed pumped-storage power station One of them is the opening of inlet valves or guide vanes in a conduit leading to the turbine/pump, and the other is the firing angle of thyristors constituting the frequency converter.
- These variables are suitably controlled according to a power command signal determined by the operation mode of the variable-speed pumped-storage power station.
- United States Patent No. 4,48l,455 cited above does not refer to a manner of concrete control of such a variable-speed pumped-storage power station.
- a patent application for example, JP-A-60-9099l (corresponding to United States Patent Application Serial No. 664436) discloses a control apparatus suitable for controlling such a power station although its principal intension is control of the power station during generating operation.
- an output command signal and a turbine's head signal are applied as inputs to function generators which generate an optimum speed command signal and an optimum valve opening command signal respectively.
- a signal representing the actual rotation speed of the water turbine corresponding to the former command signal is fed back to control the firing angle of the thyristors of the frequency converter, and a signal representing the actual opening of the turbine's guide vanes corresponding to the latter command signal is fed back to control the opening of the guide vanes of the water turbine. Further, a frequency variation or power variation in the electric power system is detected to correct the output command signal thereby consequently correcting the opening of the guide vanes.
- the disclosed control apparatus is intended exclusively for controlling the generating operation of the power station, and the output command signal applied as an input is used merely as an auxiliary signal for obtaining a target speed signal and a target guide-vane opening signal. That is, the output command signal is not directly compared with an actual generator output.
- open loop control systems are provided for the speed control and guide-vane opening control, and the generator output is determined as a result of the above controls.
- the generator output control such open loop control systems, in which the rotation speed control is a primary object, and the generator output control is a secondary object, do not quickly respond but respond with a delay time.
- plural control systems such as the rotation speed control and the generator output control are desired sometimes to be applied to the same generator any practical counter-measure against interference therebetween has not been realized yet.
- the greater part of the load is supplied from a nuclear power station or a large-capacity thermal power station which must make base load operation, hence, which has not a frequency regulatability, and the remaining part is borne by a hydro-electric power station or other thermal power station operable with a low generation cost. That is, for the purpose of an economical use of the electric power system, the thermal power station requiring a high generation cost is shut down or operates at a light load in the nighttime. Because of such a middle load operation, shortage of the electrical output and frequency regulatability in the nighttime has resulted. Suppose, for example, a case where shortage of electrical power in the nighttime must be immediately covered.
- a pumped-storage power station of variable-speed type provides various merits.
- One of the merits is that the power station can operate at a high efficiency in each of the generating operation mode and the pumping operation mode.
- the automatic frequency control (AFC) function is exhibited even when the power station operates in the pumping mode, that is, when the generator motor operates as the motor.
- the known control system which is based only on the premise that the rotation speed is controlled by controlling the output of the motor, is not satisfactory in its response speed and stability in that the peculiar AFC function cannot be fully exhibited in the pumping operation in the nighttime.
- variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system suitable for fully exhibiting the AFC function during pumping operation and executing both the drive output control and the rotation speed control for the motor independently of each other and without contradiction.
- a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system including a generator motor having a primary winding connected to an electric power system and a secondary winding connected to the electric power system through a frequency converter, and a turbine/pump directly coupled to the shaft of the generator motor, the variable speed pump or pump-generating system comprising means for producing a target power signal by adding an error signal representing the difference between an actual rotation speed and a target rotation speed of the generator motor to an output command signal commanding an output power required for the variable speed pump or pump-generating system, and controlling an internal phase difference angle (a phase difference between an internal induced voltage and a terminal voltage) through the frequency converter according to an error signal between the target power signal and a power feedback signal feeding back an actual output power of the generator-motor, the output command signal including also a command signal from an AFC device installed in a central load-dispatching office generally controlling the electric power and pump system or such control signal for the electric power system.
- Fig. l shows diagrammatically the structure of a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system to which the present invention is applied.
- a generator motor l directly coupled to a turbine/pump 6 has a primary winding lP and a secondary winding lS.
- the primary winding lP is connected to an electric power system 5 through a main circuit l00 including a breaker ll and a main transformer 2l.
- the secondary winding lS is connected to the electric power system 5 through an excitation circuit 200 including a frequency converter 4, an exciting transformer 23 and a breaker l4.
- An output controller l0 generates a control voltage signal l30 on the basis of an output command signal P o applied thereto and applies the signal l30 to an automatic pulse-phase shift controller 3.
- the automatic pulse-phase shift controller 3 On the basis of the signal l30, the automatic pulse-phase shift controller 3 generates and applies a firing signal l3l to thyristors constituting the frequency converter 4.
- a guide vane controller 30 is provided to control the opening of guide vanes 7 of the water turbine 6.
- there are a detector 40 detecting the electric power P r another detector 2 detecting the rotation speed N r of the turbine/pump 6, another detector 70 detecting the opening Y r of the guide vanes 7, and another detector (not shown) detecting the gross head H ST of the turbine/pump 6.
- a potential transformer PT and a current transformer CT are connected to the power detector 40.
- the output controller l0 receives as inputs an output command signal P o from a central load-dispatching office and/or a local setter, a gross head detection signal H ST from the head detector (not shown), a pump rotation speed signal N r from the pump speed detector 2, and a load detection signal P r from the power detector 40, and applies a control voltage signal l30 to the APPSC (Automatic Pulse Phase Shift) 3 as an output.
- An opening detection signal Y r from the guide-vane opening detector 70 is applied as an input to the guide-vane opening controller 30 in addition to the signals P o and H ST .
- a guide vane regulator 9 is a sort of a hydraulic amplifier and normally makes an integrating operation. As far as there is a difference between the signals Y OPT and Y r , the guide vane regulator 9 integrates the difference between Y OPT and Y r negatively fed back from the vane opening detector 70 until Y r becomes equal to Y OPT .
- the generator-motor l and the turbine/pump 6 constitute a rotary mechanical system 50 together with an adder part l04 and an inertia effect part l05. It will be seen that the rotation speed N r of the turbine/pump 6 is determined by the difference between the input and output torques of the rotary mechanical system 50.
- the present invention shown in Fig. 2 is featured in that the power control system is constructed so that the actual drive power can directly follow up the output command signal P o and is formed as part of the secondary excitation control system of the generator motor l. Further, the present invention is featured in that a signal ⁇ for controlling the rotation speed of the generator motor l is added to the output command signal P o as a correction signal.
- the output command signal P o is applied to the output controller l0 from, for example, the central load-dispatching office and includes an AFC signal besides an ELD (economical load dispatch) signal etc.
- the output controller l0 responds quickly to the output command signal P o including the AFC signal which change incessantly.
- Another input to the output controller l0 is the signal indicative of the gross head H ST .
- This gross head H ST simply represents the water level difference between an upper reservoir and a lower reservoir for the turbine/pump 6.
- the net pump head H is defined as the sum of the gross head H ST and a conduit loss in the pumping system.
- the output controller l0 includes an optimum rotation speed function generator l2 calculating an optimum rotation speed N OPT of the turbine/pump 6 at the application timing of the signals P o and H ST , a comparator l00 comparing the optimum rotation speed N OPT provided by the output signal from the function generator l2 with an actual rotation speed N r detected by the speed detector 2, and a speed regulator l6 including at least an integrating element for decreasing the speed error to zero.
- the circuits described above constitute a speed control system, and an output correction signal ⁇ appears from the speed regulator l6.
- the output correction signal ⁇ is added to the output command signal P o in an adder l0l to provide a composite output command signal (P o + ⁇ ), and this composite signal (P o + ⁇ ) is compared with an actual drive output P M in a comparator l02.
- An output regulator 8 including at least an integrating element is connected to the comparator l02 so as to provide a negative feedback circuit to decrease the error between P M and (P o + ⁇ ) to zero.
- the circuits described above constitute an output control system.
- the output signal of the output regulator 8 provides the control voltage signal l30 applied to the APPSC 3 to determine an internal phase difference angle through the thyristors of the frequency converter 4 thereby controlling the drive output P M of the motor l.
- This drive output P M is detected by the power detector 40 as P r which is used for the negative feedback control of the output.
- the guide-vane opening controller 30 includes an optimum guide-vane opening function generator l3 calculating an optimum guide-vane opening Y OPT at the application timing of the output command signal P o and gross head signal H ST , a comparator l03 comparing the optimum guide-vane opening Y OPT provided by the output signal from the function generator l3 with an actual guide-vane opening Y r detected by the guide-vane opening detector 70, and a guide vane regulator 9 including at least an integrating element for decreasing the error between Y OPT and Y r to zero.
- a mechanical input P p required for the turbine/pump 6 is determined.
- the difference or error (P M - P p ) detected by a comparator l04 appears through the inertia effect part GD2 l05 as a speed change.
- the error (P M - P p ) is detected by the speed detector 2, and the drive output P M of the motor l is controlled until the speed signal N r becomes equal to its target speed signal N OPT .
- Figs. 3 and 4 show the characteristics of the function generators l2 and l3 respectively.
- the values of N OPT and Y OPT required to optimize the efficiency of the turbine/pump are determined as a function of H ST and P o as a result of a model test on the turbine/pump. It can be understood from Fig. 3 that the larger the value of P o , the value of N OPT is larger when H ST is constant, and the larger the value of H ST , the larger is the value of N OPT when P o is constant. Also, it can be understood from Fig.
- Figs. 5 and 6 show modifications of the block diagram shown in Fig. 2.
- the manner of signal processing in the output controller l0 remains unchanged, and the manner of calculation of the optimum guide-vane opening Y OPT in the guide-vane opening controller 30 deffers from that of Fig. 2.
- the optimum guide-vane opening Y OPT is calculated on the basis of the gross head signal H ST and output command signal P o .
- the optimum guide-vane opening Y OPT is calculated on the basis of the gross head signal H ST and the speed command signal or an actual speed. That is, in Fig.
- the detected speed N r is used for calculation of Y OPT
- the output N OPT of the function generator l2 is used for the calculation of Y OPT
- a function generator l7 having a characteristic as shown in Fig. 7 is used for the calculation of Y OPT . It is apparent that, in this case too, changing directions of the drive output P M and the mechanical input P p due to a change in P o or H ST are similar to those described with reference to Fig. 2.
- Figs. 5 and 6 differ only from that shown in Fig. 2 in the manner of calculation of the optimum guide-vane opening Y OPT , and they are identical to the invention disclosed in Fig. 2 in the technical idea of the present invention in which a correction is applied to the generator motor drive output control system from the rotation speed control system. Further, as described already, the response of the output control system is very quick as compared to that of the guide-vane opening control system.
- the attain ability of the object of the present invention (which contemplates to provide a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system suitable for full exhibition of the AFC function especially during pumping operation) will be described by reference to the typical embodiment of the present invention shown in Fig. 2.
- the central load-dispatching office applies an output-decrementing command signal to the power stations and applies also a drive output (electrical load)-incrementing command signal P o to the variable-speed pumped-storage power station of the present invention operating in its pumping mode.
- the variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system shown in Figs. l and 2 operates as described below.
- N r N OPT by the speed control system
- Y r Y OPT by the guide vane control system
- This correction signal ⁇ is added to the drive output command signal P o in the adder l0l to provide the composite drive output command signal (P o + ⁇ ) for the generator motor l.
- This command signal (P o + ⁇ ) is compared with the actual output detection signal P r in the comparator l02, and the resultant signal is applied to the output regulator 8.
- This output regulator 8 calculates an excitation voltage V to be applied to the secondary winding lS of the generator motor l so as to develop the drive output demanded by the composite drive output command signal (P o + ⁇ ).
- the voltage E is to be controlled according to the reactive power control command
- the internal phase difference angle ⁇ is to be controlled according to the effective power control command.
- the signal representing the internal phase difference angle ⁇ thus calculated is applied from the output controller l0 to the APPSC 3.
- the firing of the thyristors of the frequency converter 4 is controlled to control the exciting voltage V applied to the secondary winding lS of the generator motor l, so that a rotating magnetic field corresponding to the slip frequency f2 can be applied to the rotor, and the value of the exciting voltage V meets the actual internal phase difference angle ⁇ .
- This output control system constituted by the electrical circuits has a delay time determined substantially by, for example, the integrating function of the output regulator 8.
- This delay time is quite short as compared to a delay in the response of the rotation speed and the guide vane opening, and the drive output P M follows up the signal (P o + ⁇ ) without any appreciable delay.
- the guide-vane opening command signal Y OPT generated from the function generator l3 responding to the incremented output command signal P o is increased as shown in Fig. 7(c).
- Y r delays slightly relative to the change of P o due to the effect of a delay inherent in the Y OPT circuit or due to the presence of a delay element purposefully provided.
- the response of the actual guide-vane opening Y r is slow as seen in Fig. 7(c). Therefore, the mechanical input P p changes at a rate slow relative to a change in the drive output P M .
- both the drive output control and the rotation speed control can be reliably executed without any contradiction therebetween.
- the drive output control is principal, while the rotation speed control is a supplemental corrective control, and the response of the drive output P M of the generator motor l can sufficiently follow up the command within several seconds.
- the variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system of the present invention can simply follow up the AFC command.
- Fig. 8 shows response characteristics when the output command signal P o commands a decreased output, but its description is unnecessary since it can be sufficiently understood from Fig. 7.
- the present invention has been described by reference to its application to a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system of secondary excitation type as shown in Fig. l.
- the present invention is also applicable to a pumped-storage power generating system of a type as shown in Fig. 9 in which a synchronous generator motor l ⁇ driving a turbine/pump 6 is connected at its primary winding lP to an electric power system 5 through a frequency converter 4.
- the frequency of the primary winding lP and the rotation speed of the turbine/pump 6 are proportional to each other, the rotation speed of the generator motor l ⁇ can be made variable by controlling the frequency of voltage supplied to the primary winding lP independently of the frequency of voltage in the electric power system 5.
- the drive output of the generator motor l ⁇ can be made variable by regulating the quantity of power supplied to the primary winding lP.
- Fig. l0 shows a modification of the function generator l2 which overcomes such a problem.
- a bias N0 is applied through a contact lll, which is closed in the pumping operation starting stage (that is, before and immediately after the guide vanes are opened), to an adder ll0 to be added to an optimum rotation speed signal N OPT ⁇ generated from a function generator l2-l.
- continuous application of the bias N0 to the adder ll0 is not desirable, and application of the bias N0 should be suitably stopped when the operation seems to be stabilized after the guide vanes are opened.
- the variable-speed generator motor l shown in Fig. l is of the type which has a primary winding and a secondary winding, which is connected at its primary winding to an electric power system, and whose secondary winding is a.c. excited by a frequency converter so that its rotor is rotated at a speed different from its synchronous speed.
- a problem as described below arises when it is driven at a speed close to its synchronous speed. That is, the frequency converter exciting the secondary winding of the variable-speed generator motor is composed of anti-parallel connected thyristors. In this frequency converter, current is concentrated in specific thyristors for a long period of time when the generator motor is driven at the speed close to the synchronous speed, and, owing to the resultant rise of heat, the current capacity of the frequency converter greatly decreases.
- the rotation speed range in which such a decrease in the current capacity of the frequency converter occurs is called a forbidden band. It is apparent that the capacity of a frequency converter, for which the presence of the forbidden band is acknowledged and which is designed so as not to operate continuously in the forbidden band, is far smaller than that of a frequency converter for which the presence of the forbidden band is not acknowledged and which is designed so as to be capable of continuous operation in the forbidden band. Therefore, there has been an alternative between two designs. According to one of them, an economical frequency converter having the forbidden band is designed, and continuous drive output regulation in the forbidden band is abandoned. According to the other, no restriction is imposed on the operable region, and an expensive frequency converter having no forbidden band is designed.
- Fig. llA shows a modification of the frequency converter l2 which deals with the prior art problem.
- a nonlinear circuit l2-2 is provided besides a primary frequency generator l2-l determining an optimum rotation speed N OPT ⁇ , and the optimum rotation speed signal N OPT ⁇ generated from the nonlinear circuit l2-2 appears as an output signal N OPT .
- the nonlinear characteristic of the nonlinear circuit l2-2 is determined by the synchronous speed N1 of the generataor motor l and its margin ⁇ .
- the margin ⁇ is commonly in the order of 0.5 to l% of N1.
- the output N OPT of the non-linear circuit l2-2 is limited to (N1 - ⁇ ) or (N1 + ⁇ ) when N OPT ⁇ is close to the synchronous speed N1, although N OPT increases in proportion to N OPT ⁇ up to (N1 - ⁇ ) or after (N1 + ⁇ ).
- the synchronous speed N1 can be quickly passed, and the undesirable temperature rise of the thyristors of the frequency converter can be suppressed to less than an allowable temperature range.
- a variable-speed pumped-storage power generation system can be realized in which the frequency converter is of an economical design having a forbidden band and operable without any restriction in its operating condition.
- the present invention provides a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system which can greatly contribute to stable control including AFC control or such frequency control of an a.c. electric power system even in a pumping mode.
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- This invention relates to a variable-speed pumped-storage power station, and more particularly to a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system which is suitable to stably continue pumping operation under command of an output command signal.
- A variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system is commonly known from the disclosure of, for example, United States Patent No. 4,48l,455. The disclosed system includes a generator motor which has a primary winding connected to an a.c. power system through a main circuit including a breaker and a main transformer. The generator motor is directly coupled at its rotor to a prime mover/load and has a secondary winding connected to the a.c. power system through an excitation circuit including a frequency converter and an exciting transformer. The system disclosed in the cited patent has such a great advantage that the prime mover/load can be driven at a rotation speed independent of the frequency of the a.c. power system. In an application of the power generating system to a variable-speed pumped-storage power station, a turbine/pump is coupled directly to the rotor of the generator motor as the prime mover/load, and, during generating operation, the rotor of the generator motor (the generator) is driven by the water turbine, thereby inducing power in the primary winding of the generator motor. The induced power is supplied to an electric power system. On the other hand, during motoring operation (pumping operation), the generator motor is driven as the motor by the power supplied from the electric power system, and water is pumped up by the pump coupled directly to the rotor of the generator motor. In this case, the frequency of the electric power system is constant or, for example, 60 Hz. However, the rotation speed of the turbine/pump can be freely selected independently of the frequency of the electric power system. Thus, the rotation speed is selected to maximize the operation efficiency of the water turbine or pump.
- The fact that the rotation speed N of the turbine/pump can be freely selected means that there is a slip frequency f₂ between the frequency f₁ of the electric power system and the frequency
- United States Patent No. 4,48l,455 cited above does not refer to a manner of concrete control of such a variable-speed pumped-storage power station. In this connection, a patent application, for example, JP-A-60-9099l (corresponding to United States Patent Application Serial No. 664436) discloses a control apparatus suitable for controlling such a power station although its principal intension is control of the power station during generating operation. According to the disclosure of the known patent application, an output command signal and a turbine's head signal are applied as inputs to function generators which generate an optimum speed command signal and an optimum valve opening command signal respectively. A signal representing the actual rotation speed of the water turbine corresponding to the former command signal is fed back to control the firing angle of the thyristors of the frequency converter, and a signal representing the actual opening of the turbine's guide vanes corresponding to the latter command signal is fed back to control the opening of the guide vanes of the water turbine. Further, a frequency variation or power variation in the electric power system is detected to correct the output command signal thereby consequently correcting the opening of the guide vanes. The disclosed control apparatus is intended exclusively for controlling the generating operation of the power station, and the output command signal applied as an input is used merely as an auxiliary signal for obtaining a target speed signal and a target guide-vane opening signal. That is, the output command signal is not directly compared with an actual generator output. Thus, from the viewpoint of output control (of the generator), open loop control systems are provided for the speed control and guide-vane opening control, and the generator output is determined as a result of the above controls. From the viewpoint of the generator output control, such open loop control systems, in which the rotation speed control is a primary object, and the generator output control is a secondary object, do not quickly respond but respond with a delay time. Further, although plural control systems such as the rotation speed control and the generator output control are desired sometimes to be applied to the same generator any practical counter-measure against interference therebetween has not been realized yet. In the nighttime where the load of the electric power system is light, the greater part of the load is supplied from a nuclear power station or a large-capacity thermal power station which must make base load operation, hence, which has not a frequency regulatability, and the remaining part is borne by a hydro-electric power station or other thermal power station operable with a low generation cost. That is, for the purpose of an economical use of the electric power system, the thermal power station requiring a high generation cost is shut down or operates at a light load in the nighttime. Because of such a middle load operation, shortage of the electrical output and frequency regulatability in the nighttime has resulted. Suppose, for example, a case where shortage of electrical power in the nighttime must be immediately covered. In such a case, a period of time of at least several minutes to ten-odd minutes is required to increase the output of the thermal power station operating under the light load, and such a long time required for covering the shortage of power is not useful for the purpose of emergency control. That is, the function of regulating both the quantity of supplied power and the power system frequency according to a load variation (the so-called automatic frequency control function) is not fully exhibited.
- A pumped-storage power station of variable-speed type provides various merits. One of the merits is that the power station can operate at a high efficiency in each of the generating operation mode and the pumping operation mode. According to another merit, the automatic frequency control (AFC) function is exhibited even when the power station operates in the pumping mode, that is, when the generator motor operates as the motor. These are most desirable merits in use of the pumped-storage power station of the variable-speed type.
- However, the known control system, which is based only on the premise that the rotation speed is controlled by controlling the output of the motor, is not satisfactory in its response speed and stability in that the peculiar AFC function cannot be fully exhibited in the pumping operation in the nighttime.
- With a view to obviate the prior art inability of fully exhibiting the AFC function, it is a primary object of the present invention to provide a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system suitable for fully exhibiting the AFC function during pumping operation and executing both the drive output control and the rotation speed control for the motor independently of each other and without contradiction.
- In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system including a generator motor having a primary winding connected to an electric power system and a secondary winding connected to the electric power system through a frequency converter, and a turbine/pump directly coupled to the shaft of the generator motor, the variable speed pump or pump-generating system comprising means for producing a target power signal by adding an error signal representing the difference between an actual rotation speed and a target rotation speed of the generator motor to an output command signal commanding an output power required for the variable speed pump or pump-generating system, and controlling an internal phase difference angle (a phase difference between an internal induced voltage and a terminal voltage) through the frequency converter according to an error signal between the target power signal and a power feedback signal feeding back an actual output power of the generator-motor, the output command signal including also a command signal from an AFC device installed in a central load-dispatching office generally controlling the electric power and pump system or such control signal for the electric power system.
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- Fig. l shows diagrammatically the structure of a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system to which the present invention is applied.
- Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing the strusture of a typical embodiment of the present invention.
- Figs. 3 and 4 are graphs showing the characteristics of the function generators l2 and l3 shown in Fig. 2 respectively.
- Figs. 5 and 6 are block diagrams of modifications showing other manners of calculating the optimum opening of the guide vanes.
- Figs. 7 and 8 show how various status quantities in Fig. 2 change when the output command signal Po is changed.
- Fig. 9 shows diagrammatically the structure of another variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system to which the present invention is also applicable.
- Fig. l0 shows one form of a function generator suitable for starting the pumping operation.
- Fig. ll shows one form of a function generator suitable for quickly passing over the synchronous speed N₁.
- Fig. l shows diagrammatically the structure of a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system to which the present invention is applied.
- Referring to Fig. l, a generator motor l directly coupled to a turbine/
pump 6 has a primary winding lP and a secondary winding lS. The primary winding lP is connected to anelectric power system 5 through a main circuit l00 including a breaker ll and a main transformer 2l. The secondary winding lS is connected to theelectric power system 5 through anexcitation circuit 200 including a frequency converter 4, anexciting transformer 23 and a breaker l4. An output controller l0 generates a control voltage signal l30 on the basis of an output command signal Po applied thereto and applies the signal l30 to an automatic pulse-phase shift controller 3. On the basis of the signal l30, the automatic pulse-phase shift controller 3 generates and applies a firing signal l3l to thyristors constituting the frequency converter 4. Aguide vane controller 30 is provided to control the opening of guide vanes 7 of thewater turbine 6. In order to detect various plant variables in the variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system, there are adetector 40 detecting the electric power Pr, anotherdetector 2 detecting the rotation speed Nr of the turbine/pump 6, anotherdetector 70 detecting the opening Yr of the guide vanes 7, and another detector (not shown) detecting the gross head HST of the turbine/pump 6. A potential transformer PT and a current transformer CT are connected to thepower detector 40. - A typical embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to Fig. 2. Referring to Fig. 2, the output controller l0 receives as inputs an output command signal Po from a central load-dispatching office and/or a local setter, a gross head detection signal HST from the head detector (not shown), a pump rotation speed signal Nr from the
pump speed detector 2, and a load detection signal Pr from thepower detector 40, and applies a control voltage signal l30 to the APPSC (Automatic Pulse Phase Shift) 3 as an output. An opening detection signal Yr from the guide-vane opening detector 70 is applied as an input to the guide-vane opening controller 30 in addition to the signals Po and HST. On the basis of these input signals, thecontroller 30 determines the opening of the guide vanes of the turbine/pump 6. Aguide vane regulator 9 is a sort of a hydraulic amplifier and normally makes an integrating operation. As far as there is a difference between the signals YOPT and Yr, theguide vane regulator 9 integrates the difference between YOPT and Yr negatively fed back from thevane opening detector 70 until Yr becomes equal to YOPT. The generator-motor l and the turbine/pump 6 constitute a rotarymechanical system 50 together with an adder part l04 and an inertia effect part l05. It will be seen that the rotation speed Nr of the turbine/pump 6 is determined by the difference between the input and output torques of the rotarymechanical system 50. - The present invention shown in Fig. 2 is featured in that the power control system is constructed so that the actual drive power can directly follow up the output command signal Po and is formed as part of the secondary excitation control system of the generator motor l. Further, the present invention is featured in that a signal ε for controlling the rotation speed of the generator motor l is added to the output command signal Po as a correction signal. In Fig. 2, the output command signal Po is applied to the output controller l0 from, for example, the central load-dispatching office and includes an AFC signal besides an ELD (economical load dispatch) signal etc. The output controller l0 responds quickly to the output command signal Po including the AFC signal which change incessantly. Another input to the output controller l0 is the signal indicative of the gross head HST. This gross head HST simply represents the water level difference between an upper reservoir and a lower reservoir for the turbine/
pump 6. On the other hand, the net pump head H is defined as the sum of the gross head HST and a conduit loss in the pumping system. Thus, when the condition of location of the pumping system is such that there is little variation in the water level (variation in the gross head HST) during operation of the turbine/pump 6, the gross head HST need not be detected by the HST detector (not shown) and can be handled as a constant value. In such a case, it is apparent that function generators l2 and l3 described below are only required to respond to the output command signal Po and may be made simpler in structure. - The output controller l0 includes an optimum rotation speed function generator l2 calculating an optimum rotation speed NOPT of the turbine/
pump 6 at the application timing of the signals Po and HST, a comparator l00 comparing the optimum rotation speed NOPT provided by the output signal from the function generator l2 with an actual rotation speed Nr detected by thespeed detector 2, and a speed regulator l6 including at least an integrating element for decreasing the speed error to zero. The circuits described above constitute a speed control system, and an output correction signal ε appears from the speed regulator l6. - The output correction signal ε is added to the output command signal Po in an adder l0l to provide a composite output command signal (Po + ε), and this composite signal (Po + ε) is compared with an actual drive output PM in a comparator l02. An
output regulator 8 including at least an integrating element is connected to the comparator l02 so as to provide a negative feedback circuit to decrease the error between PM and (Po + ε) to zero. The circuits described above constitute an output control system. The output signal of theoutput regulator 8 provides the control voltage signal l30 applied to the APPSC 3 to determine an internal phase difference angle through the thyristors of the frequency converter 4 thereby controlling the drive output PM of the motor l. This drive output PM is detected by thepower detector 40 as Pr which is used for the negative feedback control of the output. - As in the case of the output controller l0, the output command signal Po and the gross head signal HST are applied to the guide-
vane opening controller 30. The guide-vane opening controller 30 includes an optimum guide-vane opening function generator l3 calculating an optimum guide-vane opening YOPT at the application timing of the output command signal Po and gross head signal HST, a comparator l03 comparing the optimum guide-vane opening YOPT provided by the output signal from the function generator l3 with an actual guide-vane opening Yr detected by the guide-vane opening detector 70, and aguide vane regulator 9 including at least an integrating element for decreasing the error between YOPT and Yr to zero. By the above manner of control, a mechanical input Pp required for the turbine/pump 6 is determined. When the actual drive output PM of the motor l does not coincide with the mechanical input Pp required for the turbine/pump 6 in the rotarymechanical system 50, the difference or error (PM - Pp) detected by a comparator l04 appears through the inertia effect part GD² l05 as a speed change. As a result, the error (PM - Pp) is detected by thespeed detector 2, and the drive output PM of the motor l is controlled until the speed signal Nr becomes equal to its target speed signal NOPT. - Figs. 3 and 4 show the characteristics of the function generators l2 and l3 respectively. In these graphs, the values of NOPT and YOPT required to optimize the efficiency of the turbine/pump are determined as a function of HST and Po as a result of a model test on the turbine/pump. It can be understood from Fig. 3 that the larger the value of Po, the value of NOPT is larger when HST is constant, and the larger the value of HST, the larger is the value of NOPT when Po is constant. Also, it can be understood from Fig. 4 that the larger the value of Po, the larger is the value of YOPT when HST is constant, and the larger the value of HST, the smaller is the value of YOPT when Po is constant. Therefore, when the output command signal Po increases within a short period of time in which any appreciable variation does not occur in the gross head HST, such an increase in Po can be sufficiently dealt with by increasing both of NOPT and YOPT. Similarly, a decrease in Po can be sufficiently dealt with by decreasing both of NOPT and YOPT. This means that the manner of control is to be such that a change in Po is dealt with by changing both of PM and Pp in the same direction. That is, Pp is increased when PM is increased. Also, an increase in HST when Po is constant is dealt with by decreasing YOPT and increasing NOPT.
- Figs. 5 and 6 show modifications of the block diagram shown in Fig. 2. In each of modifications shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the manner of signal processing in the output controller l0 remains unchanged, and the manner of calculation of the optimum guide-vane opening YOPT in the guide-
vane opening controller 30 deffers from that of Fig. 2. In Fig. 2, the optimum guide-vane opening YOPT is calculated on the basis of the gross head signal HST and output command signal Po. In contrast, in Figs. 5 and 6, the optimum guide-vane opening YOPT is calculated on the basis of the gross head signal HST and the speed command signal or an actual speed. That is, in Fig. 5, the detected speed Nr is used for calculation of YOPT, while in Fig. 6, the output NOPT of the function generator l2 is used for the calculation of YOPT. In each case, a function generator l7 having a characteristic as shown in Fig. 7 is used for the calculation of YOPT. It is apparent that, in this case too, changing directions of the drive output PM and the mechanical input Pp due to a change in Po or HST are similar to those described with reference to Fig. 2. - The embodiments shown in Figs. 5 and 6 differ only from that shown in Fig. 2 in the manner of calculation of the optimum guide-vane opening YOPT, and they are identical to the invention disclosed in Fig. 2 in the technical idea of the present invention in which a correction is applied to the generator motor drive output control system from the rotation speed control system. Further, as described already, the response of the output control system is very quick as compared to that of the guide-vane opening control system. The attain ability of the object of the present invention (which contemplates to provide a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system suitable for full exhibition of the AFC function especially during pumping operation) will be described by reference to the typical embodiment of the present invention shown in Fig. 2.
- Suppose, for example, that an oversupply of electric power occurs in the electric power system including the variable-speed pumped-storage power stations, and an increase in the power system frequency results. In such an event, the central load-dispatching office applies an output-decrementing command signal to the power stations and applies also a drive output (electrical load)-incrementing command signal Po to the variable-speed pumped-storage power station of the present invention operating in its pumping mode. In response to this drive output-incrementing command signal Po, the variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system shown in Figs. l and 2 operates as described below. It is supposed herein that the plant variables Nr, Pr and Yr at various parts in Fig. 2 are set at Nr = NOPT by the speed control system, PM = Pr = Po and ε = O by the output control system, and Yr = YOPT by the guide vane control system, before the output command signal Po is incremented from its constant value. There holds the relation PM = Pp between the mechanical input Pp required for the turbine/
pump 6 and the actual drive output PM of the motor l. This is because the difference (PM - Pp) becomes zero due to the inertia effect GD² (l05) of the combination of the motor l and the turbine/pump 6, which can be regarded as a kind of an integrating element. Therefore, when errors that may occur in the function generators l2 and l3 are ignored, YOPT and NOPT are equivalent to Po, or the relations YOPT = Po or equivalent and NOPT = Po or equivalent hold. Thus, the relation Po = YOPT or equivalent = Y or equivalent = Pp = PM holds, and the output correction signal ε is zero. - When, under such a state, the drive output command signal Po from the central load-dispatching office shows a sharp increase at time t₁ as shown in Fig. 7(a), the actual drive output PM increases relatively quickly as described later, and, on the other hand, the rotation speed command signal NOPT generated from the function generator l2 increases almost instantaneously, as will be apparent from Fig. 3 showing the characteristic of the function generator l2. On the other hand, the actual rotation-speed detection signal Nr cannot immediately increase up to the level of the signal NOPT due to the inertia effect or the like as described later, and an error occurs therebetween. This error is integrated by the integrating function included in the speed regulator l6 to appear as the correction signal ε. This correction signal ε is added to the drive output command signal Po in the adder l0l to provide the composite drive output command signal (Po + ε) for the generator motor l. This command signal (Po + ε) is compared with the actual output detection signal Pr in the comparator l02, and the resultant signal is applied to the
output regulator 8. Thisoutput regulator 8 calculates an excitation voltage V to be applied to the secondary winding lS of the generator motor l so as to develop the drive output demanded by the composite drive output command signal (Po + ε). Especially, among functions for determining the quantities of excitation of the individual phases of the secondary winding lS of the generator motor l, thereby controlling the internal phase difference angle Δδ, a-phase, b-phase and c-phase voltages Va, Vb and Vc of the secondary winding lS of the generator motor l are given as follows:output controller 8. - In the control of the variable-speed generator motor according to the equation (2), the voltage E is to be controlled according to the reactive power control command, and the internal phase difference angle Δδ is to be controlled according to the effective power control command. Thus, effective power is used as information for controlling the internal phase difference angle Δδ of the secondary winding lS of the generator motor l. That is, the internal phase difference angle Δδ is expressed as follows:
Δδ = ∫k₁(Pr - Po - ε)dt + k₂(Pr - Po - ε) ... (3)
where k₁, k₂ are constants. Calculation of the equation (3) in theoutput regulator 8 is so-called proportional plus integral calculation. - The signal representing the internal phase difference angle Δδ thus calculated is applied from the output controller l0 to the APPSC 3. In the APPSC 3, the firing of the thyristors of the frequency converter 4 is controlled to control the exciting voltage V applied to the secondary winding lS of the generator motor l, so that a rotating magnetic field corresponding to the slip frequency f₂ can be applied to the rotor, and the value of the exciting voltage V meets the actual internal phase difference angle Δδ. By the above manner of control, the drive output PM (= Pr) of the generator motor l follows up the composite drive output command signal (Po + ε) as shown in Fig. 7(d). This output control system constituted by the electrical circuits has a delay time determined substantially by, for example, the integrating function of the
output regulator 8. This delay time is quite short as compared to a delay in the response of the rotation speed and the guide vane opening, and the drive output PM follows up the signal (Po + ε) without any appreciable delay. - On the other hand, the guide-vane opening command signal YOPT generated from the function generator l3 responding to the incremented output command signal Po is increased as shown in Fig. 7(c). Yr delays slightly relative to the change of Po due to the effect of a delay inherent in the YOPT circuit or due to the presence of a delay element purposefully provided. Because of a speed limitation determined by the
guide vane regulator 9 or due to a delayed operation of the hydraulic amplifier in theregulator 9, the response of the actual guide-vane opening Yr is slow as seen in Fig. 7(c). Therefore, the mechanical input Pp changes at a rate slow relative to a change in the drive output PM. Because of the above relation between the mechanical input Pp and the drive output PM, the turbine/pump 6 is accelerated according to the difference between the drive output PM and the mechanical input Pp as shown in theblock 50 in Fig. 2, and the rotation speed Nr of the turbine/pump 6 increases. With the increase in the speed Nr, the error between Nr and NOPT decreases until finally the relation NOPT = Nr is attained. Also, because the relation YOPT = Yr is satisfied by theguide vane regulator 9, the operation of the turbine/pump 6 is stabilized. - The reason why ε = O is achieved under a steady state, that is, how Po = Pr is achieved in a steady state will now be described. As described above, the mechanical input Pp corresponds to the actual guide-vane opening Yr. As also described above, the relation YOPT = Yr holds.
- Further, according to the operating principle of the optimum guide-vane opening function generator l3, the relation YOPT = Po or equivalent holds.
- On the other hand, the combination of the output regulator 8 (including the integrating element) and the Pr negtive feedback circuit provides the relation Po + ε = Pr. Further, as described already, the relation Pr = PM holds. Also, considering the integrating action of the inertia effect part l05 and the action of the Nr negative feedback circuit, the relation PM = Pp holds.
- From the above, it can be concluded that the relation Po + ε = Pr = PM = Pp= Yr or equivalent = Y OPT or equivalent = Po holds, and the value of ε becomes finally zero.
- Thus, in spite of the application of both the drive output control and the rotation speed control to the same motor l, both these controls can be reliably executed without any contradiction therebetween. In Fig. 7, the drive output control is principal, while the rotation speed control is a supplemental corrective control, and the response of the drive output PM of the generator motor l can sufficiently follow up the command within several seconds. Thus, the variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system of the present invention can simply follow up the AFC command. Fig. 8 shows response characteristics when the output command signal Po commands a decreased output, but its description is unnecessary since it can be sufficiently understood from Fig. 7.
- The present invention has been described by reference to its application to a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system of secondary excitation type as shown in Fig. l. The present invention is also applicable to a pumped-storage power generating system of a type as shown in Fig. 9 in which a synchronous generator motor lʹ driving a turbine/
pump 6 is connected at its primary winding lP to anelectric power system 5 through a frequency converter 4. Although, in this case, the frequency of the primary winding lP and the rotation speed of the turbine/pump 6 are proportional to each other, the rotation speed of the generator motor lʹ can be made variable by controlling the frequency of voltage supplied to the primary winding lP independently of the frequency of voltage in theelectric power system 5. Also, the drive output of the generator motor lʹ can be made variable by regulating the quantity of power supplied to the primary winding lP. - The above description has referred to the operation after the pumping operation has been normally started. Consider now the stage where the guide vanes start to be opened prior to the pumping operation. This pumping starting stage includes depression of the water level, rotation of the pump/turbine under a no-loaded condition, release of the water-level depressing pressure to permit rise of the water level, opening the guide vanes, and starting the pumping operation. In this stage, the rate of increase in the pump input, after the guide valves are opened, is generally sharp immediately after the guide valves start to be opened. Unless this abrupt change in the pump input is appropriately dealt with, the rotation speed of the generator motor decreases greatly or deviates from the allowable band of the variable speed. On the other hand, when the frequency converter is designed so that the excitation control can deal with such an abrupt change in the pump input occurring in the stage of starting the pumping mode, the current and other ratings of the drive motor, frequency converter, etc. must be increased, resulting in an uneconomical design.
- Fig. l0 shows a modification of the function generator l2 which overcomes such a problem. Referring to Fig. l0, a bias N₀ is applied through a contact lll, which is closed in the pumping operation starting stage (that is, before and immediately after the guide vanes are opened), to an adder ll0 to be added to an optimum rotation speed signal NOPTʹ generated from a function generator l2-l. Thus, at the beginning of the pumping operation starting stage, the turbine/
pump 6 is driven at the speed NOPT = NOPTʹ + N₀, and, even when the rotation speed decreases temporarily due to the opening of the guide vanes, the rotation speed of the pump can be maintained at a value close to the optimum speed NOPTʹ. In this connection, continuous application of the bias N₀ to the adder ll0 is not desirable, and application of the bias N₀ should be suitably stopped when the operation seems to be stabilized after the guide vanes are opened. - The variable-speed generator motor l shown in Fig. l is of the type which has a primary winding and a secondary winding, which is connected at its primary winding to an electric power system, and whose secondary winding is a.c. excited by a frequency converter so that its rotor is rotated at a speed different from its synchronous speed. In the generator motor of such a type, a problem as described below arises when it is driven at a speed close to its synchronous speed. That is, the frequency converter exciting the secondary winding of the variable-speed generator motor is composed of anti-parallel connected thyristors. In this frequency converter, current is concentrated in specific thyristors for a long period of time when the generator motor is driven at the speed close to the synchronous speed, and, owing to the resultant rise of heat, the current capacity of the frequency converter greatly decreases.
- The rotation speed range in which such a decrease in the current capacity of the frequency converter occurs, is called a forbidden band. It is apparent that the capacity of a frequency converter, for which the presence of the forbidden band is acknowledged and which is designed so as not to operate continuously in the forbidden band, is far smaller than that of a frequency converter for which the presence of the forbidden band is not acknowledged and which is designed so as to be capable of continuous operation in the forbidden band. Therefore, there has been an alternative between two designs. According to one of them, an economical frequency converter having the forbidden band is designed, and continuous drive output regulation in the forbidden band is abandoned. According to the other, no restriction is imposed on the operable region, and an expensive frequency converter having no forbidden band is designed.
- Fig. llA shows a modification of the frequency converter l2 which deals with the prior art problem. Referring to Fig. llA, a nonlinear circuit l2-2 is provided besides a primary frequency generator l2-l determining an optimum rotation speed NOPTʹ, and the optimum rotation speed signal NOPTʹ generated from the nonlinear circuit l2-2 appears as an output signal NOPT. The nonlinear characteristic of the nonlinear circuit l2-2 is determined by the synchronous speed N₁ of the generataor motor l and its margin α. The margin α is commonly in the order of 0.5 to l% of N₁. When the value of the margin α is as described above, NOPT = NOPTʹ when NOPTʹ ≦ N₁ - α or when NOPTʹ ≧ N₁ + α; NOPT = N₁ - α when N₁ - α < NOPTʹ < N₁; and NOPT = N₁ + α when N₁ < NOPTʹ < N₁ + α. Consequently, when the output command signal Po increases proportionally as shown in Fig. llB, and the output NOPTʹ of the function generator l2-l increases also in proportion to Po, the output NOPT of the non-linear circuit l2-2 is limited to (N₁ - α) or (N₁ + α) when NOPTʹ is close to the synchronous speed N₁, although NOPT increases in proportion to NOPTʹ up to (N₁ - α) or after (N₁ + α). Thus, the synchronous speed N₁ can be quickly passed, and the undesirable temperature rise of the thyristors of the frequency converter can be suppressed to less than an allowable temperature range. Thus, according to this method, a variable-speed pumped-storage power generation system can be realized in which the frequency converter is of an economical design having a forbidden band and operable without any restriction in its operating condition.
- It will be understood from the foregoing detailed description that the present invention provides a variable-speed pumped-storage power generating system which can greatly contribute to stable control including AFC control or such frequency control of an a.c. electric power system even in a pumping mode.
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